The Daily Blog Open Mic – 8th February 2022
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Moderation rules are more lenient for this section, but try and play nicely.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/461064/cleaners-post-crime-suspected-and-attempted-suicide-scene-photos-on-social-media
What does a decomposed business look like?
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Oh ho! On further consideration the directors of rio tinto and their distant heads of management have thought that the cost of partially cleaning up the toxic remains at the Tiwai site, and fudging the rest, and possible threatened lawsuits will be large enough to make it worth keeping on, keeping on, in a world where supplies of building materials and electricity are uncertain.
I think we must be careful about guaranteeing them electricity as required, as with our eager-beaver leaders, on recent experience, they will tie us in knots that dig deeper as time proceeds and have us sacrificing power to meet legal requirements to supply to the smelter. Or spend huge amounts in electricity arrays that never get to send power to the grid for the public. Watch those clever dickies, they have clear goals, profit-first and ‘my’ emolument hangs on it.
The Grey Power NZ Federation supports calls by the Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson for an amnesty for all older people caught in the border closures in 2020 and 2021 and who now face the possibility of having to repay an overpaid pension because they were forced to stay out of the country over the 26 weeks limit, through no fault of their own.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2202/S00062/grey-power-wants-immediate-action-for-pensioners-stuck-overseas.htm
Ms Wrightson has been around for a while and can handle tough decisions. She knows how to assert her position and get things done. PM Jacinda better listen, even if Grant doesn’t (who reminds me a little of Shakespeare’s Falstaff, just a little!)
Old, fat, lazy, selfish, dishonest, corrupt, thieving, manipulative, boastful, and lecherous, Falstaff is, despite his many negative qualities, perhaps the most popular of all of Shakespeare’s comic characters.
https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/henry4pt1/character/sir-john-falstaff/
I propose Mark Sainsbury as the inaugural Commissioner for the Elderly. He’s the obvious choice.